Hasta La Ideas

“People used to be afraid of architects. Actually, there was a lot of fear of decorators, too. People didn’t know all the things they know now. The decorators were not stars, they were treated like the help, and yet people weren’t sure what they wanted. They had a fear of being labeled as someone with no taste or bad taste. In the beginning, they loved the Louis and they loved formal. Now, the clients are more sophisticated, and they tell the designer what to do. We used to call them decorators. Michael Greer said, ‘I don’t care if they call me a decorator or a designer, just so long as the check clears.'”

–Paige Rense Noland, retiring editor-in-chief of Architectural Digest, in conversation with Penelope Green of The New York Times

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